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Or 2513

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032-003375139
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Or 2513
Title:
Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's biblical commentaries
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
161 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1331
End Date:
1331
Date Range:
1331
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Shemu᾿el ben Yosef
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
ha-Levi, Japheth ben Ali, 0900-0999
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Or 2513

Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's biblical commentaries

Contents

The commentary of Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi on the Song of Songs and Ruth (fragments).

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-161v
Title: Perushim
Title: פרושים
Author: Japheth ben Ali, ha-Levi,‏ active 10th century יפת בן עלי, הלוי

The volume contains Yefet's Arabic commentary on Ruth and the Song of Soings. The pointed and accentuated Hebrew text with an Arabic translation is embodied.

Colophon: תם תפסיר שיר השירים ב[...] אללה ועונה ממא עלקה העבד הנצרך לרחמי צורו שמואל בן יוסף כוגך נ"ע וכאן אלפראג מנה יום אלכמיס ראבע ועשרין אייר אלמואפק לשעבאן סנה אתנין ותלתין ושבע מאות לישמעאל תפסיר אלמעלם אבו עלי.
ff. 161r-161v
ff. 1v-45r
Title: Ruth
ff. 45v-161v
Title: Song of Songs

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 161 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 122 × 95 mm.
Foliation:

161 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

17 quires of 10 leaves each (except the 13th and 17th which have 8 and 3 leaves respectively).

The quires are signed with Arabic words on theupper margin of the first page.

Condition

Lacunae after folios: 12, 21, 31, 45, 48, 61, 115.

Partially water-damaged.

Several pages with damaged margins.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 17

Written lines: 17

Separate title-page, supplied by a much later hand.

The colophon is supplied twice, the second one being added in a more recent hand.

The pointed and accentuated Hebrew text with an Arabic translation is embodied.

Hand(s)

Square and semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Shemu᾿el ben Yosef: inscribed, folio 161v.

ff. 1r-1v
,
ff. 81r-81v
,
ff. 100r-100v
and
ff. 149r-149v
- recent restorations.

f. 45v - rhymed lines added by another contemporary hand.

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Yefet. Comm. on Ruth & Canticles. Arabic. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2513.'

History

Origin: 1331

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), an antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Library from him on 8 July 1882: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2513 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 302.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL